Why You Should Vote In Person On Election Day

[orleans]

“The more people show up the harder it is for them (GOP) to fake it, to rig it, to change it, to flip it. And that’s what they do.

"And when it’s close (the election) it’s easy to do. When it’s not close--if it’s 80/20 or 70/30 or 65/35 it’s much harder to fix the election.

"People need to show up, they need to cooperate with exit pollsters who are asking you “what did you just do?” Tell them what you just did, tell them honestly--if you voted republican, shame on you but tell them (if you can bare it). And if you voted democrat say “I voted for the democrat straight down the line.”

"Whatever you do--just make sure (to tell them honestly), because the exit polls can’t…if there’s a big, big difference in the exit polling (which is so refillable because they’re asking you something you just did, not what you intend to do, not what you want to do, not what you‘re gonna do--it‘s what you just did).

"This is the method that is used to see if third world countries had free and fair elections. Exit polling. Because asking somebody what they just did is reliable, it has less than a half a percentage of a margin of error.

"It is reliable, it is good. We should do it. You should show up and if you don’t show up you can’t be exit polled. And it makes everybody else’s vote not as safe.

"Will they (GOP) try (to steal the election)? I’m sure they’ll try.”

--Randi’s rant October 26th, 2006

[Toots]

1. I don't buy it

You are sounding just like Bush* in ways. As long as there are election "judges" of both Parties watching everything that happens to each and every vote and make sure that each ballot is properly secured into a locked ballot box we should not fear. What we need to fear is the machines. Whether Bush* who ran on the theme "I trust the people" and actually does not trust the people as he stated during the 2000 recount when he said "Only machines can be trusted because they are objective where people are subjective", we/I actually do trust the people. I trust our election "judges" because I know a few personally of both parties and they are good decent people. It is the machines we need to fear and not paper ballots mailed in early. Why do you think the Republican Party has been mailing Absentee Ballots out to all it's Party members for over a Decade now? It is how they have such a good GOTV effort. IMO you are wrong and your logic will likely cost us the election. It is time to start trusting the people and not the damn machines...

[orleans]

3. hey toots -- were you talking to me? about my post? read it again

because you must've been reading something else when you posted back to me on this thread.

you're the one sounding like bush--not me--with all this blind faith you were spouting.

i don't trust the machines and neither does randi rhodes--who, by the way i QUOTED in my entire post--none of that was me talking (but i guess you missed that too)

and apparently you trust your elections so much you have no doubt bush won fair and square in 2000 and 2004.

well, i don't think he did. i think the machines were fixed. i think votes were stolen, switched, flipped.

maybe you missed the entire point of the post which has to do with mass turn out on election day, to report to the exit pollsters, and if/when the pukes "win" but the exit polls show a VAST DISCREPANCY then the world will know for certain that the election is not valid--that it was STOLEN. THERE WON'T BE ANY DOUBT.

for people who are voting absentee because they are out of town, working, etc-- that's fine.

but we need to have a massive TURNOUT--so the media can document it, so the exit pollsters can do their job polling the voters.

people shouldn't be doing the early voting simply as a convenience -- only as a necessity and then absentee would be better documented.

my kid is an election judge. i trust her. but she won't be counting the early votes or the absentees. i believe that's the job of the election commission and my county's election commission is a bunch of fucking republicans!

and just to show you how trustworthy the people are on my county election board check out these two articles:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-061027hacker,1,2960848.story?coll=chi-news-hed

http://www.dailyherald.com/opinion/zimmerman.asp

and that comment you made about people of both parties, locked ballots, and trust trust trust...remember warren county in ohio? remember the bullshit "terrorist threat" and the lock down on the building where they kicked out the media to COUNT THE VOTES IN PRIVATE???

i don't trust the machines (you missed my sig line too i guess) and i don't trust the crooks involved in this election process. but i trust exit polls. and turnout on election day is CRITICAL.

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2. A hard copy of my absentee vote will be on file

It is filled in completely with a number two pencil. In case of a recount, there is no way my vote will be mistaken as anything other than my choice.